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John R. Vile | Rowman & Littlefield | 2020 Reviewed by Rabbi Dr. Stu Halpern “...for pathos of narrative; for the selections of incidents that go directly to the heart; for the picturesque of character and manner; the selection of circumstances that mark the individuality of persons; for…

ISSUE 24 • April 26, 2021 Note from the Executive Director Does graduate school need to be a destination when you first begin at YU or can it be one that is decided upon along the way? The short answer is that it can be both. Your career strategy is one you will add to and edit throughout your ...

On Sunday, April 25, 2021, friends and family gathered to celebrate Dr. Mordecai Katz, a committed philanthropist whose generosity and leadership have transformed Yeshiva University and the Jewish world. If you attended, feel free to revisit the amazing tributes paid to this wonderful man. If you…

Cardozo News Cardozo Law School Commencement 2021 Will Take Place In-Person Cardozo's Response to Derek Chauvin Conviction Prof. Kate Levine Speaks on Difficulty in Obtaining Justice in Police Violence Cases Prof. Ekow Yankah Joins NBC's Mehdi Hasan Show to Discuss Policing Black Communities Prof…

ISSUE 11 • April 19, 2021 Note from the Executive Director The thrill of the negotiation is leading the other party to believe you are generous and collaborative and want what is best for them. The best outcomes are when each party walks away with a win, yet deep inside you want to feel good about…

Dear YU Community, In the April issue of View from YU, you will find Dr. Ari Berman’s historic trip to Dubai to help lead an interactive Yom HaShoah ceremony, the first Holocaust commemoration event held in an Arab country. Students also commemorated YomHaShoah and Yom HaZikaron with a variety of…

On Tuesday, April 20, 2021, the Multidisciplinary Department of Jewish Studies of the Faculty of Jewish Studies at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel, and the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies celebrated the publication of Contextualizing Jewish Temples (The Brill Reference Library…

By Marlene Schiffman Catalog Librarian Dr. Rachel Mesch On Monday, April 19, 2021, Dr. Rachel Mesch, professor of English and French and chair of the English department at Yeshiva College, spoke about her new book, Before Trans: Three Gender Stories from Nineteenth-Century France with Liesl Schwabe…

On April 15, 2021, Dr. Noam Wasserman, dean of the Sy Syms School of Business, participated in “Entrepreneurship 2021: Learning From the Past and Present So We Can Shape the Future,” an Executive Briefing sponsored by the Global Interdependence Center (GIC), whose mission is to “engage renowned ...

Daniel Mendelsohn | University of Virginia Press | 2020 Reviewed by Rabbi Dr. Stu Halpern Daniel Mendelsohn’s Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate is a moving and learned meditation on narrative and exile. The author begins by recounting his struggles to recover from the…